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Chattel, Inca Historic Preservation Consultants NELS YOUNGBORG Senior Associate I Architectural Historian Nets Youngborg has over nine years of experience in the architectural inspection services and historic preservation fields. He holds a Masters Certificate in Historic Preservation from the University of Texas, San Antonio and is completing his thesis for a M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. For over six years, Nels worked as a consultant to advise public housing authorities on best practices for maintaining, weatherizing and rehabilitating their properties and how to approach projects that would impact historic resources. These services required experience with material life -cycle analysis, LEED AP accreditation, federal certification for real estate assessment, and intimate knowledge of Federal and State regulations regarding historic resources. Nets also worked as a student professional worker and an emergency appointment planning assistant at the City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning Office of Historic Resources for two years. He managed the Historic - Cultural Monument program, worked with the Cultural Heritage Commission to create their hearing schedule, wrote staff reports to advise the City's historic preservation cases, assisted in management of the Mills Act program, reviewed and cleared permits for historic resources, reviewed Environmental Impact Reports that proposed potential impacts to historic resources, and served as the social media coordinator for SurveyLA Los Angeles Citywide Historic Resources Survey. Nets specializes in assessment of historic significance, design review, permit expediting, geolocational database management and map creation through ArcGIS software, material condition assessment and risk analysis, preparation of documentation to support local, State and Federal historic preservation regulations, such as the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Ordinance, Mills Act, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), and compliance with the Secretary of Interior's Standards. SUKIGERSHENHORN Associate II 1 Architectural Historian In her six years of professional experience, Suki has explored many facets of Historic Preservation including conservation, research, and interior design. She began her career working with historians and contractors, restoring historic mining cabins in Santa Cruz, California. Intrigued with the architecture of the Bay Area, Suki began working at an interior design firm in Berkeley. There she specialized in American Arts and Crafts period interiors designed by architects such as Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck and Walter Ratcliff. In 2012, Suki was awarded a fellowship to work for Preservation Detroit, a nonprofit advocacy organization. Working with property owners, neighborhood groups and city planners throughout Detroit, Suki prepared landmark nominations, created condition assessments, and wrote advocacy articles for local and national publications. In 2015, Suki received an M.S. in Historic Preservation at Columbia University. While completing her studies, she worked as a conservation technician at the New York City Parks department and as an archival assistant at the Columbia Architecture Library. Her master's thesis explored the history and conservation of rustic ferro-cement structures, which will be partially published in the Association for Preservation Technology's 2015 Bulletin. She satisfies the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards in Architectural History.